UC Irvine, Special Collections

This collection comprises approximately 200 pieces of late 19th-century and early 20th-century American sheet music.

This collection consists primarily of fifty-four photographs of silent movie actress Claire Adams depicted in many of her forty six silent films. Production companies include Paramount, Universal, and Jesse G. Hampton Productions. The collection also includes studio portrait photographs, a number of clippings, and two serial issues.

This collection comprises 16 hand-drawn and hand-colored sketches of magazine advertisements for women's clothing and other products, such as beach towels, hosiery, and cigarettes. The sketches were created with various media, including pencil, ink, colored pencil, and watercolor, and are on stiff boards. The sketches represent the integration of abstract styles, such as Cubism, Orphism, and Synchromism, into mainstream, commercial use.

This photograph album was created by ballet dancer and choreographer Harcourt Algeranoff, who partnered Anna Pavlova during her world tours. The album contains 178 photographs from 1922 to 1928 depicting the Pavlova Company on tour in South Africa, Egypt, and India, as well as moments from Algeranoff's personal life.

This collection comprises nine costume sketches by the late 19th-century London costume firm Allen and Lewis. Sketches were created with watercolor and pencil, and are approximately 9.5 centimeters by 15.5 centimeters. Designs portray women in a variety of stage roles and include costumes for Spanish dancers, a Greek muse, a clown, and a fairy.

This collection comprises almanacs and fragments of almanacs published in the United States during the 18th-20th centuries.

This collection consists of six portraits, two facsemile signatures, and one autograph of John J. Audubon from the mid 1800s.

Scrapbooks filled with newspaper clippings and photographs, correspondence and ephemera pertaining to the Ballet Pacifica dance company.

This collection consists of two scrapbooks containing the press clippings of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo's 1947 and 1956-1957 seasons. The clippings are mostly from American and Canadian newspapers and are in English and French.

William H. "Bill" Batchelder (1940-2018) was Professor of Cognitive Sciences at UCI. Born in Mississippi and raised in Indiana, Batchelder was one of a generation of 1960s Stanford graduate students who laid the foundations for the field of mathematical psychology. After early stints at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of Wisconsin-Madison, he joined UC Irvine in 1970. He was instrumental in the development and creation of the Department of Cognitive Sciences and contributed significantly in establishing the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences in 1989. He served as director from 1999-2003. He received the Lauds and Laurels Award for Distinguished Research in 1994 and in 1997 was elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists. This collection comprises documentation on early talks and conferences, research files, material related to the School of Social Sciences and its history, correspondence, NSF and other grant materials, technical reports, course and teaching materials, certificates, posters, a typed copy of his dissertation, and material related to chess (certificates, early score cards, and tournament reports).